Nope, I have tried this as well, with the thought of trying to save money. You can get a decent pattern and kill deer, but everything I read was that it eventually harms the rifling in the barrel. Not sure I believe that or not, but didn't want to chance it. What I did observe is that when I sighted back in with sabots, I had to move the scope setting about 12 inches from where the rifled slugs were centering.